Venezuelan Prelate’s Call for Prayer Omits Christ’s Kingship
EWTN News reports that Juan Carlos Bravo Salazar, titled “Bishop” of Petare, Venezuela, appealed for “serenity, peace, and above all, a climate of prayer” following the U.S.-led capture of dictator Nicolás Maduro on January 3, 2026. The article quotes Salazar urging avoidance of “unverified information” and street protests while invoking the “Lord of Life and Peace.” The “prelate” concluded by asking the “Holy Spirit” to help “disciples and shepherds” interpret Venezuela’s “historical moment.”
Naturalism Masquerading as Piety
Salazar’s statement epitomizes the conciliar sect’s reduction of religion to a psychological coping mechanism. By framing prayer as a tool for emotional stability amid political chaos—“our strength and hope are in the Lord of Life and Peace”—he divorces divine intervention from its sole purpose: the establishment of Christ’s Social Reign over nations. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) condemned such vacuous spirituality, declaring: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace, and harmony” (¶19). The “bishop’s” silence on Venezuela’s obligation to conform its laws to the Catholic Faith reveals his adherence to Vatican II’s heresy of religious liberty.
The Missing Doctrine: Christ’s Right to Rule Nations
Nowhere does Salazar reference the Regnum Christi—the foundational truth that “all the rights which belong to Christ as King and Savior of the world must likewise be attributed to the Church” (Pius XI, Quas Primas, ¶17). This omission aligns with the conciliar sect’s betrayal of Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), which identified Modernism’s core error: reducing faith to subjective experience while denying dogma’s immutable authority. By treating prayer as a therapeutic exercise rather than an act of submission to Divine Law, Salazar perpetuates the neo-church’s abandonment of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus.
Collaboration With Secular Powers
Salazar’s plea to avoid “street protests” tacitly endorses U.S. military intervention—a violation of Catholic teaching on just war. The Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemned the notion that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). True shepherds would demand Venezuela’s liberation not through foreign armies, but through repentance and public consecration to the Sacred Heart. Instead, the “bishop” acts as a chaplain to globalist agendas, echoing Bergoglio’s 2023 claim that “dialogue with the powerful is the only path to peace.”
A Hierarchy of Apostates
Salazar’s 2022 “episcopal consecration”—presumably conferred by conciliar sect “bishops”—lacks validity under Canon 2370 of the 1917 Code, which annuls sacraments administered by heretics. His appeal to the “Holy Spirit” for “interpretation” of events parrots the Modernist heresy that “truth changes with man, because it develops with him” (Lamentabili Sane, §58). Authentic Catholic pastors would invoke Pius IX’s Quanta Cura (1864), condemning those who “falsely imagine that the best condition of human society is that in which no duty is recognized by the State of restraining offenders of the Catholic religion.”
Conclusion: The Silence Screams Heresy
Salazar’s statement—devoid of calls for national consecration, the propagation of the Faith, or the restoration of Catholic monarchy—proves the conciliar sect’s complicity in building the “abomination of desolation” (Daniel 12:11). As true Catholics pray for Venezuela’s conversion, they reject the neo-church’s false shepherds who scatter Christ’s flock.
Source:
Venezuelan bishop calls for ‘maintaining serenity, peace, and above all, a climate of prayer’ (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 03.01.2026